VOtable import may be out of date with exported VOtables

[turmon]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Following the instructions at class KnownRVPlanets(KeplerLike1) [which, side issue, need to be updated - link rot] I downloaded a new VOtable from the exoplanet archive. The URL I used is a the first recommended redirect from the exoplanet archive link in the instructions. The Exoplanet archive redirect page labels the link I used as (Confirmed Planets or Extended Planet Data)

It points to this URL: https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/nph-tblView?app=ExoTbls&config=PS

I followed the rest of the directions to get a VOtable.

The second recommended link ("Composite Parameters") allows a similar download, but this table also causes an attribute-name mismatch.

In either case, the field names seem to have changed. E.g., there is no pl_host on this table, and the magnitude fields have changed names, and so on.

Describe the solution you'd like Probably we need to keep up-to-date with the current naming scheme, unless there's more than one VOtable naming scheme, and I can select a compatible one.

Additional context

[turmon]

Modules fragment to reproduce:

"modules": { "PlanetPopulation": "KnownRVPlanets", "StarCatalog": " ", "OpticalSystem": "Nemati", "ZodiacalLight": " ", "BackgroundSources": "GalaxiesFaintStars", "PlanetPhysicalModel": " ", "Observatory": "WFIRSTObservatoryL2", "TimeKeeping": " ", "PostProcessing": " ", "Completeness": " ", "TargetList": "KnownRVPlanetsTargetList", "SimulatedUniverse": "KnownRVPlanetsUniverse", "SurveySimulation": " ", "SurveyEnsemble": " " }

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/HabEx/Analyses/integration-time/./test_OpticalSystem_int_time.py", line 316, in test_char_750nm self.run_one_test(scenario, mode_num, mode_name, exosims_to_reference_char) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/HabEx/Analyses/integration-time/./test_OpticalSystem_int_time.py", line 334, in run_one_test self.setUp_simulation(scenario) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/HabEx/Analyses/integration-time/./test_OpticalSystem_int_time.py", line 280, in setUp_simulation SU = load_universe(scenario) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/HabEx/Analyses/integration-time/./test_OpticalSystem_int_time.py", line 257, in load_universe SU = SU_mod(specs) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/EXOSIMS-versions/Photometry2022/EXOSIMS/EXOSIMS/SimulatedUniverse/KnownRVPlanetsUniverse.py", line 21, in init SimulatedUniverse.init(self, specs) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/EXOSIMS-versions/Photometry2022/EXOSIMS/EXOSIMS/Prototypes/SimulatedUniverse.py", line 205, in init self.TargetList = get_module(specs["modules"]["TargetList"], "TargetList")( File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/EXOSIMS-versions/Photometry2022/EXOSIMS/EXOSIMS/TargetList/KnownRVPlanetsTargetList.py", line 64, in init TargetList.init(self, specs) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/EXOSIMS-versions/Photometry2022/EXOSIMS/EXOSIMS/Prototypes/TargetList.py", line 385, in init self.populate_target_list(specs) File "/proj/exep/rhonda/Sandbox/EXOSIMS-versions/Photometry2022/EXOSIMS/EXOSIMS/TargetList/KnownRVPlanetsTargetList.py", line 123, in populate_target_list dist = tmp["st_dist"].filled() * u.pc File "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/cornell-v2/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.py", line 3224, in getitem dout = self.data[indx] ValueError: no field of name st_dist

==> Similar error when looking for pl_hostname, Vmag, etc.

[dsavransky]

The IPAC tables have been changed upstream and the KnownRV family of modules is being deprecated and replaced with the plandb family of modules (currently in development).